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This philosopher’s use of imagination to create “epistemic friction” is discussed in José Medina's The Epistemology of Resistance, which calls this author an “epistemic hero.” This philosopher argued that divine love demands human correspondence and defended Augustine, Aquinas, and John Chrysostom in the Scholastic-style Letter Worthy of Athena. This philosopher quipped that Aristotle would have written much more had he spent more time cooking (15[1])in a letter that later thanks learned forebears like Aspasia and St. (*) Gertrude. A soul is liberated from the body by Night and embarks on a quest to understand Creation in a poem by this author that ends, (-5[1])“the world illuminated, and I awake.” This author of the satire You Foolish Men is the subject of the intellectual biography The Traps of Faith. (10[1])For 10 points, name this author of the Reply to Sister Filotea and First Dream, a nun from New Spain. ■END■ (10[1])

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